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[Day Permalink] Sunday, December 22, 2002

[Item Permalink] Chimera is looking good -- Comment()
I have been using the new build of Chimera for two days, and haven't had a single crash. So far so good. If this keeps up there is hardly any reason to start up other browsers any more on Mac OS X.


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You're secure: "Here's the frightening story of a man who, with his pregnant wife, lost his temper with a Portland airport security screener who'd groped his wife's breasts and made her lift her shirt in view of 100+ passengers. He was cuffed, arrested, charged, banned. When he tried to defend himself, he ran into a wall of omerta and revisionism, as the authorities manufactured sins to compound his crime with and refused to let him see the videotape of the incident, which, he claims, would exonerate him." [via Boing Boing Blog] [The Aardvark Speaks]


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Robot to probe life on Mars: "British experts on Thursday put on display a robot lander that could settle one of the most pressing questions in space science today: does life, or the potential for it, exist..." [Google Technology News]


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Are Blogging and Unemployment Related? "It would be interesting to see if there's a correlation between the meteoric rise of blogging, the practice of keeping a frequently-updated online journal, and the rise of unemployment in Silicon Valley and other tech corridors." [Slashdot]


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NetNewsWire Pro 1.0b1 Now Available: "The first beta release of NetNewsWire Pro adds a Weblog editor, a notepad, a Find command, AppleScript support, and more to the popular application." (MacMinute via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu]